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Saturday, 03/17/2007 3:07:30 AM

Saturday, March 17, 2007 3:07:30 AM

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After reading DD2's posts about the Humboldt-Chanute field being expanded to the North and to the West further into Woodson County, I started poking around for information about relatively near fields also in Woodson County to the North and West of Humboldt-Chanute.
Specifically, I looked at the Piqua, Neosho Falls-Leroy, Vernon, Bunkie, Moerer, Owl Creek, Owl Creek SE, Yates Center, Owl Creek S, and Quinn fields.

I noticed two things about these fields: 1) Including the Humboldt-Chanute, the larger fields marked for both Gas & Oil tended to be getting it still from the Squirrel formation areas, all in the 800+ range (give or take).
2) The fields to the N and W that are marked for Oil only, at least in the larger fields, all seemed to have been getting respectable amounts of oil from the Mississippian layer, which is a good bit deeper (1200'+). The exception is Vernon... it's marked for Oil & Gas both, but it doesn't list the depth they are penetrating to get into the Mississippian layer.
The smaller fields are not included in this, but... they're small fields.
Neosho, Vernon, Owl Creek, Owl Creek SE, and Yates Center were all getting huge oil out of the Mississipian layer.
By way of example: Owl Creek, not terribly far to the west of Hemi's wells, in 2006, even with incomplete data still saw a production rate of 42,817 bbls out of 266 wells, for a cumulative rate of 2,575,933 bbls.

I'm going to go way out on a limb at this point... it would not be much of a stretch to find the Squirrel formation would extend to the North and West of Chanute since all those other fields in that direction are also getting oil from that formation. On the surface, various waterways have carved up the landscape, but the underlying blanket layers (Squirrel formation) are probably continuous, after all.
In the other direction, and deeper, it's completely believable that the extremely productive Mississipian layer would extend to the South and East from those outlying fields that are currently producing from that layer... into the Chanute-Humboldt field.

Bottom line... if Hemi manages to tap into this level, either via existing wells, or new wells... it's pretty impressive the quantities of oil Hemi could be working with at that point.

Yes, this is extrapolation on my part... and I'm not a geologist. But while I might not be spot-on with the details, I am positive this scenario is VERY MUCH INSIDE THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY for Hemi in the near future.


This makes it all easy to look at:
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/PRS/County/tw/woodson.html

P.S. I would be very interested in more experienced/more knowledgable folks either confirming, or refuting any of this... at the very least I find it very intriguing, since this area in Kansas seems to be the main focus for Hemi right now.




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